December 2016
Who Are Americans? Multiethnic or Multicultural?
The populist resurgence around the world, including our own country, is about identity crisis. Belonging to a "nation" is only a few centuries old. Before that, people identified with their clan, village, or town. Educated and city people identified with their empire, the oldest form of human civilizational organization. But as empires fell, nation states rose.
The nation states were an improvement in some ways over empires in that more people were involved in governance and share more...
The nation states were an improvement in some ways over empires in that more people were involved in governance and share more...